Shawn Windsor: Detroit Tigers' Max Scherzer has this pitching thing all figured out

1:01 AM,
Jul. 10, 2014

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It isn't the crackling, late-moving fastball that will earn Max Scherzer gobs of money this winter. It's his brain.

The same instrument that used to get in his way now keeps him on the top shelf with baseball's best pitchers. Wednesday's knockout performance against the Dodgers at Comerica Park was his latest offering, the fourth straight dominant outing after a mental recalibration a couple of weeks back.